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Dominant Bl = Lavender?
Mike Gilbert:
Lavender does not produce splash. Andalusian blue to Andalusian blue produces splash. If the birds in your picture are all from the same line I would say they are (from the left) splash, blue, and black. The blue is not very good as she does not show the required lacing, but that is quite common.
The second bird from the left looks a little too dark to be lavender, and there are many shades of andalusian blue.
Having said all that, the only way to know for sure is to do test matings. Phenotype often does not reveal genotype.
Guest:
Are you sure it is not a Khaki sport? As in Khaki Polish?
http://bluepolish.tripod.com/sitebuildercontent/sitebuilderpictures/whitecrestedchoc.jpg
Looks like a khaki to me, but I know nothing whatsoever about this color.
John:
--- Quote ---Are you sure it is not a Khaki sport?
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The photo doesn\'t show a lot, but I am tempted to agree. I have had grey colored LF sports that I worked with for a few years. The bird looks a little darker than what I thought may be Smokey. Dan Demerest told me they may be Khaki. The photo looks like a splash and blue with a Smokey, Khaki or your best guess in between.
Below are a couple photos from last spring. The color appeared to dilute both red and black, but I also remember getting black chicks with mated to pure black. Maybe it doesn\'t dilute red, but didn\'t do a good job of stopping it from leaking thru. I think it is recessive to black as lavender is. I didn\'t keep records and mated white, buff and black cocks over \"smokey\" hens.
Guest:
John, I am VERY interested in this information. I have \"ghost barred\" and \"smokey\" crosses very much like you describe. I had a bird almost identical to the first of yours for quite some time as well.
I have grey cocks which have little red but have had red birds in their ancestry...they normally have some black speckles or feathers, but not many. Some have lightly patterned off yellow hackles with a smokey color on the inside (kind of like silver with black on the inside). The father was a large white Ameraucana cock whom allowed showed too much yellow (when on corn he would turn 75% yellow with white \"ghosting\" within hackling and tail feathers. It varied from light grey to almost lavender). I call the birds \"unwashed\" because for some reason they always look unkept.
It may dilute red and black, but since any such bird from the crosses (random I guess b/c no notes) would likely not be homozygous, black offspring would be expected. From my birds it doesn\'t seem recessive. It showed in almost all of the offspring, except for a few (though I believe some of the Red Shoulders have it too). The hens weren\'t related and I doubt they also carried the smoky coloration.
Guest:
Let me see if I have the little pullets photo on hand...I have an adult laying hen of Ambers and Black Ameraucana ancestry. The father was a white color with yellow hackles and a sort of goldish wing. The mother was, of course, black. The result is what you have. I doubt the black Ameraucana carried smoky, but the hen has A LOT of off white smoky color on her with a little golden color on the head and neck.
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